NASA plans to send another rover to Mars in 2020, and they’ll be discussing some of the details of that mission today. Included in those details will be what instruments the rover will carry, and that will give us an idea of exactly what it will be capable of looking for once it lands. You can watch the full announcement right here.
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
NASA received 58 proposals, twice the number of some other recent instrument competitions. That just goes to show the tremendous interest in exploring Mars. Although I bet if they were sending a mission to Europa they’d get at least that many proposal just from Bill Nye and the Planetary Society.
(via NASA)
- A simulated Mars mission has ended after four months
- So we talked about being in the same room for four months
- This is the human-driven rover NASA hopes to send to Mars in the future
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